Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog? — Google News gets more press mentions than other news search engines. It gets more blog mentions, too. But, Yahoo News and AOL News have larger unique audiences. — So, why is the tail wagging the dog? Before we jump to any conclusions, let's do the numbers.

About the Copiepresse decision — Posted by Rachel Whetstone, European Director of Communications and Public Affairs — Today we heard that the Belgian court, which last year ruled against us in the Copiepresse case has reaffirmed its original decision. This judgment is clearly disappointing …

Telegraph gets touchy about Comment is free — The Daily Telegraph's Shane Richmond is unhappy that the Guardian calls Comment is free (Cif) a blog. It's not, he says, calling for a debate about what exactly a blog is, and adding it's unfair to compare the Telegraph's blogs with CiF.

Online Video Industry Index — Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus — There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it's easy to lose track of them all. So let's take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the major players.

Live Search for Mobile Launches at 3GSM — Searching for Love? Or Just Love to Search? — On the bus home from work, Jim realizes it's Valentine's Day and he hasn't prepared any dinner plans with his wife Katie! Instead of panicking, he pulls out his Windows Mobile device and opens Live Search for mobile.

House OKs specialized patent judges — The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would allow certain federal judges to defer patent cases to colleagues considered better-versed in the complex area. — The proposal, first introduced last year by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) …

SightSpeed Getting Out There — SightSpeed is one of those companies I follow regularly, and they had some interesting news today. "The SightSpeed Guy", Peter Zotollo, has been picked up by DirecTV for a bigger video gig. Peter has been producing "News of the Day" posts on YouTube …

Is Radio Still Radio if There's Video? — Ted Stryker, a D.J. at KROQ in Los Angeles, considers it a perk of the job to wear shorts and T-shirts to work. But last Sunday as he dressed for the Grammy Awards, he pulled out his best blazer and a flashy belt buckle, knowing three video cameras …

Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw — Joanna Rutkowska has always been a big supporter of the Windows Vista security model. Until she stumbled upon a "very severe hole" in the design of UAC (User Account Control) and found out — from Microsoft officials …

Marc Ecko Expands Game Business — If you thought that fashion designer Marc Ecko's last game, Getting Up, was a one shot deal, think again. Ecko (right) is back in a big way with a new video games division, Marc Ecko Entertainment (MEE). More within...

Horntones: Customize Your Honk — These days, if you can't download a custom sound onto a device, nobody wants it. That's why the Horntones FX-55 device is going to be so successful: instead of a lame single-note honk when you get mad at that guy who cut you off, why not play a few bars …

How do we keep up? — I got up early to read feeds and do email. I started at 5:45 a.m. and it's now 7:26 a.m. and I still didn't get through all my feeds. But, worse, is what I did find: dozens of new products, new companies, new phones (Gizmodo and Engadget are going crazy posting phone news …

Our Valentine's day gift: out of beta and adding comments — Here at webmaster central, we love the webmaster community — and today, Valentine's Day, we want to show you that our commitment to you is stronger than ever. We're taking webmaster tools out of beta and enabling comments on this blog.

Get Illuminated podcast 005 - Scott Rosenberg — In 2001, Mitch Kapor, the designer of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, and the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started the Open Source Applications Foundation, or OSAF for short. — Kapor hired some of the most talented programmers …

Shopping Path's CrispyShop — I've known about ShoppingPath for a couple months, but Guilherme Leal inventor and co-founder of the company was putting on some finishing touches. The site is in Beta, but I thought it was now worth a mention. ShoppingPath has launched a site called CrispyShop.

Nokia Video Center Hands On — So this is what YouTube on a Nokia looks like. It's more of a video RSS feed, but it's still pretty cool. There are only Reuters and YouTube up there right now, it seems, but it allows you to add channels and browse video thumbnails. Coolness.

The next class fits in your pocket — Distance learning has been around for decades, but thanks to the iPod and other digital music players, higher education is becoming as portable as a pop song. — "I do testing for offshore rigs," said Melvin Robinson, a Sugar Land engineer …

Facebook's little digital gift — Last week, Facebook unveiled a gifting feature. For $1, you can purchase a gift for the person you most adore. If you choose to make the gift public, you are credited with that gift on the person's profile under the "gift box" region.